<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">The backseat of the Jovan Virag&#39;s car caught fire last weekend.</span></p>

<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">&quot;</span>As soon as we opened up the car door, we could smell the burning plastic,&quot; Jovan Virag told&nbsp;<a href="http://www.khou.com/mb/news/local/expert-light-up-shoes-could-be-fire-hazards/183108158">KHOU 11 News.</a></p>

<p>&quot;I&#39;m just glad that my son wasn&#39;t wearing them at the time,&quot; said Virag. &quot;I don&#39;t know if he could have told me his foot was hot, and I don&#39;t think he could have taken it off by himself.&quot;</p>

<p>&quot;Even though it&#39;s a small battery, it still has enough energy to create a fire,&quot; said Cam Cope, President of Auto Fire and Safety Consultants. He says the shoes can literally light up.<br />
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&quot;They&#39;re not high quality,&quot; said Cope. &quot;They&#39;re made in China. In China, the wiring is very, very small. The smaller the wire, the more potential problems you&#39;ll have with wires and fires.&quot;</p>

<p>Cope recommends checking your child&#39;s shoes often for overheating&nbsp;and never leaving them in a car.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&quot;If you put your fingers in them you can sometimes feel the heat is there. It will heat up for some time before it ignites.&quot;</p>
